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Media Outlets Promote Climate Change Echo Chamber By Aly Nielsen Liberal nonprofits reflect the biases of their donors. So when supposedly unbiased media outlets build relationships with those nonprofits, they blur the lines between activism and reporting. The “journalistic collaboration” Climate Desk is a perfect example. It acts like a liberal echo chamber of climate alarmism, with multiple outlets running the exact same story to increase its reach. For-profit media outlets including The Atlantic, The Guardian and Newsweek, partnered with...

ProPublica Fan John Oliver Used Trump Loophole to Avoid Property Taxes By Aly Nielsen Whatever John Oliver may claim, he is an enterprising hypocrite. Last Week Tonight host John Oliver said he wanted to “mitigate Trump’s damage” by supporting groups like ProPublica in November 2016. But behind closed doors, he used similar tactics as President Donald Trump to avoid paying taxes on a $9 million penthouse. Oliver had a lawyer establish a complicated network of revocable trusts and a shell...

ProPublica Corrects False Claim EPA Science Board Members Were Fired By Aly Nielsen Editor’s Note: The original version of this story was published before ProPublica deleted its tweet and issued a correction. The story has been changed to reflect those updates. After Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt chose not to renew the contracts of several members of EPA’s Board of Scientific Counselors, ProPublica falsely claimed on May 7, that he fired them. On May 9, ProPublica issued a correction....

CJR Finds Scientific Opposition to Linking Hurricanes and Global Warming By Aly Nielsen A surprising report from the George Soros-funded Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) revealed several scientists oppose the way the media have tried to blame hurricanes on man-made climate change. CJR used the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to acquire emails “sent from or received by six hurricane researchers or forecasters” which included the terms “global warming” or “climate change.” The May 2, article written by Rob Verger indicate...

Climate Alarmist Groups Panic Over New NY Times Columnist By Aly Nielsen There was a time when the offensive term “climate change denier” referred to those who directly disputed the existence of global warming. Now, the term is affixed to anyone who doesn’t promote the radical policy demands of climate alarmists. Left-wing climate website DeSmog Blog criticized The New York Times on April 25, for hiring “a climate science denier.” The person they labeled a “denier,” was Pulitzer Prize winning...

People’s Climate March Steering Committee Got $36 Million from Soros By Aly Nielsen The “People’s Climate March,” scheduled for the 100th day of Donald Trump’s presidency, claims to be a movement of the people. But is it really? It turns out one-third of the steering committee organizations have one thing in common — donations from George Soros. The liberal billionaire gave them more than $36 million combined. So far the broadcast networks have not made the connection. Between 2000 and...

Journalists Pretend Media Darling ProPublica Not ‘Left Wing’ By Aly Nielsen After White House press secretary Sean Spicer called ProPublica a “left-wing blog” in an April 3 press conference, ProPublica responded on Twitter claiming “we’re actually in the biz of facts.” But the “left-wing” description is indeed a fact. Media outlets like The Huffington Post, Salon, The Washington Post and Vox all defended ProPublica’s research, but refused to consider the nonprofit outlet’s liberal bias. Additionally, The Post is one of...

Climate Journalism Groups Panic Over EPA Rollback By Aly Nielsen Temperatures rose at climate journalism non-profits when President Donald Trump issued an executive order rolling back many of the Obama-era climate regulations. The executive order requires the EPA to “review Obama’s Clean Power Plan, rescind the moratorium on coal mining on US federal lands,” and review the impact existing regulations have on jobs, according to CNN. Grist, Democracy Now!, DeSmog Blog and InsideClimate all proved their liberal bias and activist...

InsideClimate,Grist and DeSmog Smear Trump Appointees as Climate ‘Deniers’ By Aly Nielsen Liberal climate blogs have insulted climate change skeptics with a term reminiscent of Holocaust deniers almost every other day — just since Donald Trump’s election. InsideClimate News, DeSmogBlog and Grist smeared people skeptical of claims about man-made climate change labeling them “deniers” on Twitter at least 69 times combined between Nov. 8, 2016, and March 27, 2017. “In Trump, U.S. puts a climate denier in its highest...

D.C. NoDAPL Protests Backed By Liberal Donors By Aly Nielsen Dakota Access Pipeline opponents descended on the Washington D.C. mall for a four day protest in March 2017. What many people may be surprised to learn is that those protesters had the backing of several nonprofits — all funded by left-wing foundations. The Native Nations March was organized by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the Indigenous Environmental Network, The Huffington Post reported March 10. The Indigenous Environmental Network has...

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